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December 195S estimated, w e r e abou t like this:

Amtiioniztin Siufais Su 1958

Coke Ovens

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Imports

Nitrogen Scheme Is Changing Ammonium sulfate giving ground fo solutions, but gaining as top dressing; exports rising

C O K E OVEN ammonium sulfate, once

the backbone of U. S. agricultural ni­trogen supply, last year slipped to the * . . . «. ι i_ ~z l O Q O «£• Ι -ΚΛ JOWeSI. O U t p U l lervcu:» a x u c c A * / ^ ^ «.«.O *-»»*. result of curtailed coking operations in the steel industry.

Steel operations dropped to as low as 4 8 % of capacity in April, recover­ing to 7 3 % at year 's end. Currently die rate is around 8 3 . 5 % .

As a nitrogen fertilizer material, am­monium sulfate ( 2 1 % N ) is slowly yielding ground to other nitrogen prod­ucts of higher analysis, especially ni­trogen solutions.

Synthetic ammonium sulfate output was s tepped up in 1958 but not enough to compensate for production losses at the coke ovens. The outputs, based on data supplied b y the Bureau of Mines and the Bureau of the Census, with

640,000

1,100,000 140,000 (Est.)

1957

910 ,000

1,070,000 120,000

• Exports H e a v y . Exports assume an important vo lume in ammonium sul­fate. I t is es t imated in the t rade tha t the greater pa r t of the synthetic pro­duced in 1957 and 1958 was exported. A good share of t h e coke oven sulfate in 1957 was also sent abroad, b u t out­puts from this source in 1958 provided little surplus for th i s purpose.

D u e in a measure to inroads by ni­

trogen solutions, d i rec t appKcatio*n o f ammonium sulfate to crops ESS slipping, says Chester E d w a r d s of Niteogen Products . On t h e other Iiaed» jfcs u s e as t o p dressing «material is Sncreatsing.. Direct application of siiîfaîae remains qu i t e large in California,

T h e changing ni trogen picture flavor­ing higher analysis materials is s l iown in another way b y t h e Depsart!ne*st €»f Agricul ture^ s u m m a r y of ct»eniicad n i ­trogen materials «consumed «during; t h e fertilizer year ended last Juane (MS57-1958) .

tTjjj. »jk«; «^««Λ*^! t he coiissHnotsoQ of all chemical nitrogen materials for «di­rect application amounted tea 3.BM mil­lion tons, an increase of 1S5,€(HB tons over die 1956-1957 period.

This report does not cower tfcue e n ­tire nitrogen consunipuon «niclurae b u t it contains some pert inent details- Use of ammonium sulfate increased S7,(J0O tons to 573,000 tons, but imitrogtsn so ­lutions gained 71 ,000 tons to 3E7,O00 tons- Anhydrous ammonia* consump­tion expanded 124,000 tons to a . total of 577,000 tons, a n d this pmobably will surprise no one- Anln/dirmis novw a c ­counts for some 15S& of atîl cli*onïeal nitrogen materials used in agricnalture-

• Pe rcen tage Uses . Heme's th*e p e r ­centage breakdown for 185*7-58=

Product fesrCent Anhydrous ammon ia 15-0 Ammonium ni t ra te 2S-S Aqua ammonia 1£-® Ammonium sulfate 15-0 Nitrogen solutions 8-0 Sodium nitrate 11-0

Other »-β Total aOO-0

T h e small p°*-centage for usrea J»>es not show its much greater user in soiutsons «^^3 Ajkor fertilizer fonQ?^ ÂSiso. îite sodium nitrate figures re^resemt Both Chilean and U- S. products .

In its Chemical Eeon&mfcs News­letter for January , Stanfcwrd Research Insti tute says t h a t fertilizer usses con­tinue t o take a n increasing sliare of to­tal ammonia production. The? rise is primarily through direct application and in the form of nitrate and s*ii*»te-

And while industrial omtiets for an­hydrous ammonia a re decreasing in per­centage of the market, dbey a r e con­tinuing their g radua l expsansioio, a i d e d b v d ie ûicreasin0" aecep!b?incc of am­monium ni t ra te as an explosive and use of ammonia in bisulfilte pulping of wood.

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b e e n e f f e c t e d b y S u m n e r Chemica l , M e w York, In « -aminosa l i cy l i c ac id . S u m n e r , a d i v i s i o n of Mi le s Labora­tories , m a d e t h e m o v e to m e e t import c o m p e t i t i o n .

S o d i u m p-aminosa l i cy la te , USP^ is n o w q u o t e d at $ 1 . 9 0 per p o u n d ; p -aminosa l i cy l i c a c i d , U S P , is S3 .40 ; a n d calc iuni p-aminosal icy late , U S P , § 3 . 1 0 p e r p o u n d . T h e prices a p p l y to iTîiïimiiirri orders o f 1 0 0 pounds .

*> C o m m e r c i a l S o l v e n t s . N e w Yorlc. i s s u e d a n e w s c h e d u l e s h o w i n g price r e d u c t i o n s for d i b u t y ! phtha ia i e . N e w t a n k c a r b a s e is £G cents per p o u n d , E a s t . N e w s c h e d u l e s w e r e also i s sued o n £ -n i t ropropane , n i t romethane , nitro-e t h a n e , I -n i tropropane , anhydrous a m ­m o n i a , b u t y l a l coho l , b u t y l ace ta te , e t h y l a c e t a t e , a m y ! acetaute, a c e t o n e , a n d S B A N o . 4 0 a lcohol .

*> W . R- G r a c e , c h e m i c a l d iv is ion, M e m p h i s , T e n n . , issued a n e w price s c h e d u l e for urea quot ing prills of 4 6 % Ν ( tree - f lowing b e a d s ) a t S I 15 per shor t t o n , freight e q u a l i z e d , carloads or truc îdoads , f .o .b . Woods tock , T e n n . W h i t e crystal l ine so l id u r e a is q u o t e d o n t h e s a m e basis , and b o t h produc t s are s h i p p e d Li 1 0 0 - p o u n d mul t iwa l l p a p e r b a g s w i t h moisture barrier.

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